Cate, Curtis — Andre Malraux. A biography

Hutchinson, 1995 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 451 pages. Text in English. Date on front endpaper, otherwise nearly as new. No modern French writer has aroused as much passion as Andre Malraux, who combined a life of action worthy of Indiana Jones with a political and literary career of extreme controversy. His capture, after a spectacular temple-robbery in Cambodia, made him a left-wing “cause celebre” and established his opposition to colonial regimes. In the Spanish civil war he led a flamboyant air squadron, and later he became one of De Gaulle's strongest supporters, and was often seen as a traitor to his revolutionary ideals. Literary intellectual, dealer in erotica, financial spectulator, admirer of Trotsky, winner of the Prix Goncourt for “La Condition Humaine”, a man with a complex and tragic private life, Malraux was in every way larger than life.